Quote: (10-19-2012 12:01 AM)the_conductor Wrote:
Quote: (10-18-2012 11:26 PM)Athlone McGinnis Wrote:
Quote: (10-17-2012 11:19 PM)kdolo Wrote:
Pretty slick system if you ask me: Corner all the pussy by restricting access to wealth and status to yourself...- rig the game so to speak ......
Its an effective strategy, quite smoothly implemented throughout the Americas by what were originally minority groups. I'm almost tempted to (reluctantly) tip my hat a bit and respect the play there.
Almost.
Anyone familiar with SA history know how they specifically did that in the first place?
Also i'm just clueless - why would you receive less educational opportunities there if you're not white; are there instances where schools care more about race than merit? Or somehow all the non-whites are assigned neighborhoods with shitty public schools, so smart mulattos are screwed?
The same way it was done in the US.
-slavery - until it ended ...then
-de jure White Supremacy in politics, economics, entertainment, law,
religion, sex. - then -
de facto White Supremacy enforced by "custom" and "tradition" in the aformentioned areas. (discrimination in hiring,firing, access to loans, interest rates, housing, law enforcement, etc.), using extra judicial violence to 'keep the darkies in place' - lynching, penal system.: all of which combined to make meaningful capital formation and wealth building virtually impossible.
- Finally propagation of the cultural myth/lie that: Brazil is a racial melting pot where everbody gets along in harmony ......except where it counts: money, status, law, ..... so that successful challenge to the White Supremacy is made difficult - even bringing it up is seen as rude or antisocial.
Unlike the US which finally acknowledge the end of de jure White Supremacy in the 60's and acknowledged/es de facto White Supremacy and the that accompanying myth that 'anybody can make it in America if you worked hard enough...' was for the Blacks - just that a lie - attempts to ameliorate with 'affirmative action' and 'diversity' initiatives & lip service to such.
Brazil has only recently (last 2-3 years Lula), openly acknowledged the de facto White Supremacy in its society and only now starting to address policies to reduce the effects of it.